Yoga with Saeed

22/10/2019

Yoga with Saeed

When my grandfather first taught me breathing techniques and simple postures, I didn't realise it would lead to a life dedicated to yoga practice and teaching. Nor did I realise he was following the Indian oral tradition, and imparting wisdom that goes back 7000 years to a unitary concept of life.

The ancients conceived of physical and non-physical realms as different constituents of one universe, a pattern that is reflected in each person having physical and non-physical constituents, physical and psychological, or often called body, mind and spirit. Ancient yogic practices that bring into balance physical and non-physical parts are embedded in Indian history and culture, and woven into everyday life, which I took for granted growing up.

So, coming to England at 18 and finding that yoga didn't exist was something of a culture shock. I came to study engineering, a profession highly respected by my family, and although I worked in engineering for a while, yoga was always a much stronger calling. There was nowhere and no one I could go to, so I practised alone, experimenting and developing disciplines, especially breathing, with increasingly beneficial effects that intrigued me.

In the Indian tradition, breathing techniques with awareness train the mind. Practice increasingly clarifies and purifies the mind, ultimately leading to self-awareness. In a state of awareness of self, a person is aware of what they are thinking in real time, and of other aspects of him/herself such as feelings, intentions, conscience and soul-connections.

I had experienced this psychological state first-hand through my close relationship with my grandfather, who was a living example of these principles in practice, and also increasingly through my own practise, but I was intrigued to know more about the incredible physical benefits I was feeling. So, I set off on a journey to find out what the latest scientific and medical knowledge could tell me about ancient yoga disciplines.

This is a never-ending journey, but back in the 1980s biology, anatomy and physiology were all new to me and although I now saw yoga being advertised, I was so absorbed in learning that it took me by surprise when an acquaintance suggested I should apply for a position as a yoga teacher. With no experience or expectations, I went along to the interview and was even more surprised when I was offered a job I never thought of doing. And yet teaching came so naturally, from the very first session I knew it was a job I was meant to be doing.

For the past 30 years, teaching has always been more than a job. In countless public classes and private sessions, I've had the privilege of teaching people from all walks of life, often dealing with difficult issues. It is a great joy to guide 'students' who want to be teachers themselves and I cherish all the positive results people experience because yoga feels like a gift that guides my way of life, and teaching a key aspect because knowledge has no value unless it is shared.

To share the knowledge I have progressively incorporated into practice, I have created for clients a unique programme based on ancient and original ideas. There is a strong focus on yogic first principles of bringing together and balancing our physical and non-physical aspects, beginning with breathe awareness and control through self-reflection, mental clarity and purity, self-control and self-awareness.

At the same time, I introduce complementary postures and movements to maximise energy flows, especially of lymphatic fluids, which boosts the immune system and the cerebral-spinal fluid for maintaining organ health including the brain. The effects of balancing are often immediate, so clients feel calmer and more centred and may, for example, experience pain reduction. Longer term effects are sustained higher levels of physical and mental fitness. When clients tell me about the positive difference yoga is making in their lives, yoga feels so rewarding, like the gift that keeps giving.

With love and compassion from Saeed,

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Email: saeed@yogawithsaeed.co.uk
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Yoga With Saeed
The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

28/09/2019

I hear and forget,

I see and remember,

I do and understand. I am sure you get what i mean.

People use words to express their feelings (in other words they are telling you how they are feeling now). However, the words coming out of their mouths are not the actual feelings, but a reaction to their feelings. They are expressing the reaction to their feelings that happened a second ago, a month ago or many years ago.

You might say to your mum, 'Mum, what you said to me yesterday made me happy.' In other words, you are expressing the reaction to your feelings to your mum in words.

The words you are expressing to your mum (mum you made me feel happy yesterday) are not the actual feelings but a reaction to your feelings.

Sorry, I have gone a mile to explain this:

THE WORDS YOU USE TO EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS ARE NOT THE ACTUAL FEELINGS BUT YOUR REACTION TO YOUR FEELINGS.

Come to my yoga classes and learn to be not only physically fit but psychological fitness is equally important too. Read my posts and practice the pointers within the articles.

Class time table is at the top.
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26/09/2019

Give your complete attention to your struggles.

Life has taught me immensely valuable lessons. I neither accept the struggle, nor reject the struggle, but give it my complete attention. In that attention, struggle reveals itself. If an action is required then I take the action.

For example; in tense situations, I hold back from expressing my extreme immediate emotion long enough to go within myself to observe what is taking place in my mind-body as a result of the tense situation. I Just observe; that is all I can do. Afterward, I feel good about myself, because I stayed in control and did not add my own reactivity to the tense situation. That is some emotional mastery through self-observation. Stay in touch with your softer self; observe.

I enjoy the inner peace - it improves the organic functioning of the physical body, yet it doesn’t teach me anything. Inner peace is passive. Struggle is active. Struggle makes me fight, not physically but thoughtfully within my own mind to understand its nature and then let go of it. Struggle develops me psychologically.

The struggle against the impossible feels like a noble task and I would prefer to lose the fight, kicking and screaming, than to give up the fight and accept things, as they apparently are.

We all desire some sort of stillness (stillness is a state of nothingness). The stillness can exist when all desire has been extinguished (extinguishing all your desire is equal to death).

The inner peace strengthens organic functioning of our physical body, it stimulates the glands, increases metabolism and keeps the autonomic nervous system balanced. A balanced autonomic nervous system is the foundation of our well-being.

Inner peace is eternal. Eternal cannot be done, it happens. Inner peace is not something we achieve, it is not something we strive for and attain like some other objects. it is something we already have deep within ourselves; I call it eternal.

Don't ruin yourself with physical, mental and emotional poisons and struggles, and above all with sad and bitter thoughts and feelings. Holding on to bad or bitter feelings is like slowly poisoning yourself to illness. Think good thoughts in order to have a healthy body and a healthy mind.

• Begin the day with a thought of love.

• Live the day with a thought of love.

• End the day with a thought of love.

• This is the way to inner well-being.

Kindness is relatively easy when others treat you well, or at least don’t harm you. The acid test is to find your way to kindness even when you have been mistreated.

Finally: Those who are hardest to love need the most love.
Can you love that person who pushes you away?

Giving and receiving is the expression of love.

Would you like to share your wisdom with Me?

Saeed 26.09.2019

25/09/2019

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17/09/2019

Don't inflame the body with Anger.

According to many public health school in United State and elsewhere in the world, "anger, hostility and inflammation" should be the number one public health issue.

If you make yourself angry for the reason you don't know; it would be healthy for you to hold back from expressing it. Because, if you don't stop and pay attention to yourself at the moment of experiencing anger, the anger spreads throughout your whole body and it is going to be even more traumatic experience for your entire body. It would be nice if you can learn to observe your anger or your angry feeling as it happens inside you.

You can observe your anger; yes you can!

Stop and breathe to relax your angry mind. Once you feel, the mind has relaxed with the help of calm rhythmic breathing and the anger has faded away from your mind and the body has become relaxed.

The next step for you would be to Stop and reflect to find out the words, that caused the anger in you or if you like caused you to be angry.

What is the process of finding out the words that caused you to be angry?

Stop, breathe, reflect, take action and letting go.

Finally, If you fail to manage your anger at a thought level meaning at a mental level then the anger spreads throughout your body physiologically; speeding up your heart, your breathing and raising your blood pressure. Be kind to your body. Don't traumatise the body with angry feelings. Practise; Stop, breathe, reflect, take action and letting go.

Our bodies already have a lot of inflammation in it. Don't make your body more sickly with inflammation.

Self-awareness and self-control would reduce the residual inflammation from your body making you feel physically relaxed, mentally peaceful and emotionally balanced. Don't live with anger, live without it by becoming aware of it and taking control of it. Just let it pass through your body in its own time.

If you live in Bristol, England. The yoga class timetable for three classes is at the top or could be found below.

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The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

15/09/2019

Are you emotionally upset, hurt or angry?

There is a great deal to learn from the sage Confucius who taught: “If an archer misses the target, he finds no fault with the target, nor with the bow, nor with the arrow, but with himself alone”.

So, you too can act in this manner, locating the root cause of your feeling or failure in your own self. Once you know the actual cause the effect ends. Not knowing the cause, effect continues to affect you mentally and or emotionally.

As we all know that all affect is interior. Any emotional impact we experience is inside us. If you hurt my feelings, it is an inner matter for me. If you can hurt my feelings, they are better off hurt, because it is an error in me.

When I am psychologically upset, hurt and or angry; I naturally hold back from suppressing or expressing my anger instead I divert the attention of my mind from the anger to my breath and I breathe in and breathe out with focused awareness until I can feel calm and composed.

Only a composed mind can help me to reflect deeply about why I am emotionally hurt or emotionally angry. Being upset, hurt or angry is my inner matter and no one else’s and therefore It becomes my Inner duty to give my complete attention to my feeling(s); that’s all I can do and should do to release myself compassionately from the feeling of being emotionally upset/hurt/angry.

15/09/2019

14/09/2019

Matt has been practising yoga with me for the last 20 years on and off since year 1999. He has been a rare devoted yoga practitioner. He has kindly sent me this image with enlightening words and I wanted to share these wonderful words with you all.

07/09/2019

Experiencing the stress of anxiety?
Yoga can help you manage the stress of anxiety.
Try yoga and find out experimentally whether it can lower the stress of anxiety.

The problem is, in today's society, we are miss-managing our stresses. Consequently we are left stewing in a toxic chemical cocktail. The result is higher stress and that is why many of us may be caught up in a state of tension and stress in a pressured work place. Consequently, our bodies are constantly prepared for an emergency a fight or flight response.

Psychological stress produces muscle tension as well as increased blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and adrenaline outflow. All of this activity feeds into the nervous system and produces a feeling of anxiety and irritability, and may be reflected in tension-headaches, backaches or fatigue.

When a person is exposed to too much stress, chemical
communication in the brain begins to fail. Then a person suffers from sleep disturbances, aches and pains, depression and anxiety. This condition is called Over-stress.

Over the counter medication, as well as drugs, can temporarily restore the brain messenger's functions but not completely and not for long. These stimulants are, the wrong way to handle over-stress. On the other hand, a person experiencing emotional dysfunction may resort to the use of inhibitor chemicals. These inhibitors are also the wrong to handle over-stress. Yoga practice can help you manage the stresses of anxiety.

03/09/2019

Be aware of what you are thinking, believing and feeling.

If you let yourself feel good, when someone says to you that you are a good person, you are preparing yourself to feel bad when the same person says to you, you are not a good person.

This moment can be a golden moment of opportunity for you to discover the whole process of knowing, how easily you become happy when someone says, you are a good person or how easily you become upset when someone says you are not a good person.

You must discover the whole process of knowing yourself, for the knowing yourself is the beginning and the ending of your psychological suffering/misery/pain.

With love and compassion from Saeed,

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The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

30/08/2019

If you are experiencing negative emotions a lot of the time; read and seriously practise what I have written below.

The way you live your life, the way you think your thoughts, the way you feel your emotions gets physiologically stored up in your brain. I recognise that many things affect your thoughts, if you allow them. Mind thinks and the body feels the effect of that thought. Thoughts are powerful whether negative or positive.

Since emotions get physiologically stored up in the brain; anything of physiological nature can be transformed with a single nostril breathing. Yes, negative emotions can be transformed by blocking the left nostril and then inhaling and exhaling through the right nostril only for 30 minutes. Then negative feelings will cease to dominate you; you will become emotionally steady and balanced and able to handle the most demanding situation with calmness of mind.

The bit of text below has been taken from page 379 and page 380.
Reference: A Physiological Handbook for teachers of Yogasana by Mel Robin.

Forced nostril breathing through the left nostril has been found to enhance the performance of spatial tasks (a speciality of the right cerebral hemisphere), whereas forced breathing through the right nostril enhances verbal tasks (a speciality of the left cerebral hemisphere) [218].

At the level of the emotion, forced breathing through the left nostril correlates with the production of negative emotions in the right cerebral hemisphere, whereas forced breathing through the right nostril correlates with the production of positive emotions in the left cerebral hemisphere [218].

I can teach you forced single nostril breathing. You can learn this breathing in my physical presence.

With love and compassion from Saeed,

Visit: www.yogawithsaeed.co.uk

Email: saeed@yogawithsaeed.co.uk

The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

29/08/2019

Learning from our inner dialogue.

We all worry, but we don’t always know why. If you feel stressed out at this very moment, do you know what’s going on inside your head, to cause you stress?

Probably not – it’s all happening in our unconscious mind. But we can usefully become aware of what subconsciously stresses us out, by becoming aware of the mental language, lurking below our everyday spoken language. In us is an inner voice we are unaware of, but which influences us.

I want to offer you access to this inner voice by a process of ‘Stop and Listen’. I hope to help you find your own answers through the steps detailed below.

We can only, however, bring this inner voice into our awareness if we allow our-self to give time to our inner dialogue with complete attention. I call this process ‘Stop and Listen’. Listening to our inner dialogue with complete attention can help us to find the root cause of our frustration, anxiety or stress, and thereby lead us to new understanding: a life with less stress and anxiety!

In other words, our feelings depend more on what we think about what happens to us than what is actually happening. As William Shakespeare once put it,” There exists nothing good or nothing bad but thinking makes it so”. So, despite our inborn tendency to think and behave irrationally, we can learn to ‘Stop and listen to ourselves more rationally and thereby allow our inborn capacity for self-understanding and self-direction to develop.

Unfortunately, many people say, “Sorry, I don't have time to stop and pay attention, I am too busy with this or that”. By doing so, such people don't allow themselves to stop and give time to listen carefully to what, if they would only listen, they constantly tell themselves inside their heads. As a consequence they are stressing their bodies and minds. Not a pleasant experience! So, what should we ourselves do? We should ‘Stop and Listen’, in order to gain awareness of what we constantly think or tell ourselves. If we manage to stop and pay attention to our inner dialogue, we can begin to recognise the hidden causes of our frustration, anxiety or stress.

It is so difficult to relax when we have something stressful on our minds. We need a clear understanding of what it is we are thinking, believing and feeling in order to relieve this stress. Self-awareness is the key in all this and positive action is needed to attain self-awareness which leads to ‘Knowing, Grasping, Letting go.’ Without such positive action, we don't go anywhere. We need to take action to make us realise and to recognise the hidden causes of our frustration/ anxiety/ stress........

Self-awareness can make you precisely aware of what is going on inside your head right this very moment, and can enable you take control of your inner voice; and to transform it to your advantage. These are practical steps you have to learn and practise until they can become second nature.

With love and compassion from Saeed,

Visit: www.yogawithsaeed.co.uk
Email: saeed@yogawithsaeed.co.uk

The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

26/08/2019

When something happens between two people. One blames the other, that is the usual thing we do.

It would be better not to focus your attention on the other person's action but rather paying attention to your feelings and needs.

For example: If your partner says, "You have been working late every night this week; you love your work more than you love me", she is saying that her need for intimacy is not being met.

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to react or counter-attack.

If you would like a compassionate response from others than you have to connect directly to your feelings and needs rather than focusing on the action of the other person. If you do that, focus on your feeling, then it is easier for others to respond compassionately to your needs.

Genuine harmony with others is really important.

With love and compassion from Saeed,

Visit: www.yogawithsaeed.co.uk
Email: saeed@yogawithsaeed.co.uk

The practice of yoga has helped millions of people to live healthier, fitter and less stressful lives. If you care about your body and care about your mind, consider the practice of postures, breathing and 'stop and reflect'.

22/08/2019

Yoga with Saeed is a combination of controlled breathing, static and dynamic stretching through postures. Once we have stretched the body’s limbs thoroughly with the static stretches then we move on to practise dynamic postures synchronised with breathing.

Dynamic postures are practised aerobically and are fantastic for your physical, physiological and psychological wellbeing. For example; Dynamic plough and Dynamic cobra can make you feel great mentally and emotionally.

Dynamic yoga practice moves the blood, the oxygen and the nutrients into your brain faster while simultaneously moving the metabolic waste out of your brain faster too. Consequently, every cell of your body is energised, every nerve of your body is deeply relaxed, every tissue of your body feels alive and vibrant; your mind . Yoga with Saeed can make you feel good emotionally. When you feel good emotionally, your brain works much more creatively and productively. Your Heart beats slowly and more rhythmically.

The cause of our bodily decline through aging comes as our hearts being to weaken and fail to pump blood properly to our cells and organs. ln Yoga we can use specific postures which purposefully rinse our organs with blood, maintaining the cells elasticity and removing toxins. This is particularly visible in the way in which the circulation of blood to our skin is not reduced, as in other types of exercise, rather it is enhanced.

Yoga is also a type of exercise that can be performed even when a person is tired to re-energise the body. ln our fast paced life styles it can also be a very restful type of exercise, relaxing a stressed body and mind, in this way it can mimic sleep. This allows the body to heal and recover whilst stretching and exercising.

For example; The practise of bow posture, the camel posture, the locust and the boat posture can keep our lungs healthy throughout till you breathe out your very last breath.

Yoga exercises can maintain our bodily health into old age by protecting our heart and improving our circulation, flexibility and our joints. Please don’t attempt the above mentioned postures, if you have not learnt them from a qualified yoga teacher.

Relax, Close your eyes, with your eyes closed, divert the attention of your mind from your thoughts to your breath. Just feel your breath for 5 minutes with an unbroken-awareness. After the 5 minutes of an unbroken-awareness of your breathing, you may experience positive changes in your thinking, in your feeling and in your behaviour.

Abdomen is a common place where people hold anxiety, so if you are feeling anxious, breathing in a specific way will help you to manage the anxiety without to much struggle.

As and when you find yourself holding your lower belly tight, especially p***c abdominals, just inhale slowly and continue to inhale until the diaphragm is fully stretched out with lungs full of inhaled air. After the inhalation is complete, relax the expanded rib cage for the exhalation to take place. At the end of each exhalation squeeze the p***c abdominals to experience abdominal tension disappearing.

The reason for squeezing the abdominals is to squeeeze all the veins in the belly region. When you squeeze all the veins in the belly region, you are squeezing out the blue blood from the veins into the lungs. Consequently, your lungs are receiving the extra blue blood which will pick up the extra oxygen. This extra oxygen will benefit the muscles, the brain and the heart.

With love and compassion from Saeed,

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20/08/2019

Controlling your responses to stress is vital for your health

Stress is a way of life these days and it has to be constantly managed in real time. There is no such thing as stress-free life. Uncontrolled mental stress causes early ageing and weakens the immune system, ultimately shortening life. Don’t let stress shorten your life. Take care of your stress knowing it is a healthy reaction.

Stress is a healthy reaction that is meant to be uncomfortable. It is a nature’s way of telling you that something is wrong and that you need to act to put it right. Stress can manifest itself in many different ways such as aggression, impatience, low mood, anxiety and so on. These are some of the symptoms of stress. Recognising that the symptoms are a result of some stressor is the first step to removing stress.

During stress the body releases lots of chemicals to alert you, with adrenalin and cortisol being two of the most important ones. Stress can be physical or it can be psychological. One example of physical stress is when we become dehydrated. The body reacts by making you uncomfortable and thirsty. You drink and this corrects the situation and removes the stress. Psychological stress should be dealt with in a similar way, so that when you experience stress you should search out a constructive way to deal with it properly. You do have a choice: either you can reactto the stress or you can deal with the stress. No matter what stress hits you out of the blue, there is a way of dealing with it.

For example: It's not the situation that causes the stresss. It is the evaluation of a situation as negative (whether correct or incorrect) is what triggers the stress response. If your evaluation of the situation is negative you are likely to feel stressed. There is no one who can teach you how to handle immediate stress but you. What can you do now to free your mind and body from this immediate stress?

Mean What You Say: Until you can do what you decide to do, until you can be true to your own word, you are not at peace inside. Meet your challenge of self-discipline. You can meet your challenge at home and in your office. Further, you will gain immense satisfaction every time you successfully meet the challenge of self-discipline.

Self-discipline will enable you to achieve self-satisfaction and self-fulfilment which you cannot realise by any other means. When you start to practice self-discipline, you determine that you have yielded to w***y nilly circumstances long enough.

Self-discipline is vitally important, not only for peace of mind but also for greater success in your life, to say what you mean and mean what you say. Be wise, be aware and be proactive. Uncontrolled stress is a number one enemy of our health and well-being.

The importance of yoga exercise when excessively stressed: As the years wear on, our hearts become less responsive to the surge of adrenaline that occurs during exertion, and sedentary people who seldom exercise experience a reduction in heart size. 

A smaller heart coupled with a reduced heart rate means that we can't pump as much blood around our bodies. The decline of our circulation, and the knock on effect over, all the different parts of our bodies, is the main cause of aging. As our cells fail to get a proper blood supply, they collect toxins which damage our tissues and stop our muscles functioning properly. 

Aging and inactivity slow down capillary vessels growth. Fewer capillaries means a lower supply of oxygenated blood can reach muscle tissue. Yoga exercise helps to improve our circulation; this is particularly true with yoga where a particular focus is placed on the bloods movement around the body.

Advanced Traditional Hatha Yoga with Babu Raj. Flexibility & Strength from the Himalayas, India
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Advanced Hatha Yoga by Babu Raj in the Himalayas, India. "I believe that doing some bone breaking postures and feeling pride does not mean practicing yoga. I...